Buy this book on-line POTTER**, BEATRIX: : THE ORIGINAL PETER RABBIT COLLECTION, No. 3LONDON.FREDERICK WARNE,1990. ISBN 0723250707.
UK,4 x 16mo wraps,illustrated,1st edn thus,1st impression,and slipcase. [The original title/book was published 1903.The miniature edition was originally first published 1988,this is the 1st 1990 impression.This macrominiature edn approx. 7.5cm x 5cm/70mm x 40mm - published,1990 with new colour reproductions.Printed and bound by Royal Smeets Offset bv. Meert,Netherlands.] NMINT/NFINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from slipcase.Bright,crisp,generally clean,very minimal blemishes to slipcase,sharp-cornered,wrap-around white background,glossy, paper-covered card slipcase with colour pictorial artwork by Beatrix Potter,illustrated front with capitalised,black-lettered title to top edge; author's capitalised,black-lettered name to front's lower edge,along with further capitalised black-lettered and other blue-lettered 'THE ORIGINAL AND AUTHORIZED EDITION' and 'New colour reproductions' legends.Spine/backstrip of slipcase with capitalised,black-lettered title as the front's,a number 3 with a b/w lettered+illustrated 'Peter Rabbit' logo beneath it and to foot of same,a thumbnail colour illustration of Johnny Town-Mouse with partially eaten strawberry and publisher's capitalised,black-lettered colophon.Rear of slipcase with 4 thumbnail colour pictorial artwork illustrations by Potter of Squirrel Nutkin, Hunca Munca, Jeremy Fisher, and Johnny Town-Mouse respectively,and capitalised,black-lettered stories' book titles.All minatures are 1st edns thus of the 1st 1990 impression with virtually NO shelf-wear,nicks,tears or splits - ALL sharp-cornered - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,and appear unread other than my own collation.UK,16mo wraps,32pp [unpaginated] with colour pictorial covers to front and contents list of titles in the collection and b/w illustrated Peter Rabbit logo to white,glossy background of rear cover,book includes characters' colour illustrated endpapers,half-title with either a dedication or a colour illustration to reverse,a title page,A colour illustrated frntis,colour vignettes/illustrations with facing text.Stories include 'The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin', ;The Tale of Two Bad Mice', 'The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher',and 'The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse'.
Visually,the external appearance is more than acceptable, and particularly internally, is in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it's 30+ year-old age and nature, i.e. an ephemeral miniature and as a young child's book.It is only the minimal faults described that prevent a slightly higher grading.Despite that it really is still an exemplary example for it's brightnesss, cleanliness and lack of other,or age-acquired detracting faults commonly encountered in such an ephemeral item and of its age too.
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